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echo: english_tutor
to: Anton Shepelev
from: Ardith Hinton
date: 2021-08-24 23:22:00
subject: Jokes of the season

Hi, Anton!  Recently you wrote in a message to All:

AS>  I post the following two jokes by way of testing the 
AS>  Hotdoged Fidonet and Usenet client, which is the best 
AS>  one for Android and the hardest to get running on 
AS>  modern versions of that OS.

AS>  I. After a COVID infection I lost taste and am reading 
AS>  Dan Brown and Ken Follet.

AS>  II. Stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, 
AS>  depression, vaccination certificate.

   
          :-))



AS>  But I fear even this client fails to wrap text to the 
AS>  standard line nength of 72 characters...

   
          I didn't see any line on my screen which ran over 72 characters here, although my software can handle up to 80.  I'm not at all concerned about lines which are shorter than what you intended because I think that makes them easier for less fluent speakers of English to interpret.  If the lines are longer than what you intended, or if other people's software omits words such as "not" when a line is quoted & requoted, I consider that to be a more serious issue.

          IOW, what appeared at 1:153/716 in Vancouver is fine with me....  :-)
  



--- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+
                                                            
* Origin: Wits' End, Vancouver CANADA (1:153/716)

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